The Saratoga Lady Panthers took on a six-member Tiger (1-7), (0-2) team in Encampment Thursday night. With freshman Shawneka Sifford out, the Lady Tigers were left with only one sub on the bench against Saratoga (3-4), (0-2).
On the other side of the court, Saratoga was almost back to full strength after suffering from illness and injury, including coach Matt Love, who was battling the flu himself two weeks ago on the road.

In what turned out to be an exciting night of round ball on the hardwood, the Encampment Tigers (7-1), (2-0) hosted Valley rivals Saratoga (2-5), (0-2) on Thursday.
Assistant coach for the Encampment Tigers Kevin Pantle said, “You always look forward to these close mach-up games. You’re always a little bit excited, always nervous about the game.”

Con artists are scamming Wyoming grandparents out of thousands of dollars by posing as grandchildren in distress. The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office has recently seen a rise in the number of this type of scam and suspects the number will increase even more over the holiday season.

Sam Platts has been living his dream of being a professional musician since he left Saratoga over three years ago.
In 2009, Platts moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho to be closer to his parents.
Since that time he has performed in several bands including the band he is traveling with this winter.

A new section of The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s website will make it easier for hunters to plan their hunt for the coming year.

Well, the world is still here. This development has caught me off guard and I had prepared nothing new in the way of “entertainment” for you to read.
Fortunately for me this world- continuing thing has fallen squarely during the “week between Christmas” and it has been tradition for the two previous years now that I print my sad attempt at poetry.

Mark Shirley, NRCS District Conservationist received the Outstanding District Conservationist Award at the Wyoming Association of Conservation District’s Convention recently. A state-wide award, Shirley was nominated by Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District and Medicine Bow Conservation District. Shirley is the District Conservationist for these two districts and Little Snake River Conservation District.

A comprehensive U.S. Forest Service report released Dec. 18 examines the ways expanding populations, increased urbanization and changing land-use patterns could impact natural resources, including water supplies, nationwide during the next 50 years.

Heading into a winter predicted to be drier and warmer than normal, snowmobilers and skiers got some much-needed snow last week.
The snow has been slow in coming this year. Highway 130 over the Snowy range and Highway 70 over the Sierra Madre range did not close until the end of the first week in December, the latest closing in a quarter century.